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Show County Stalls 7-Eleven on Beer Permit beer cans and bottles along the road and create an eye sore. Right now there are six pretty green Heinikin bottles laying in the creek at Old Ranch Road." Sieverts also said he was worried about the access to beer adding to the problem of drinking drivers. "I have seven kids and I worry about the traffic problem. When people drink and drive they might even kill one of my kids," he added. Hudgens pointed out the store area is zoned commercial commer-cial and that the developer plans to continue developing. develop-ing. "We won't be the only individual selling beer there. We strictly enforce state laws through our internal store policies. We're not intersted in losing our license once we get it and rather than creating a traffic problem we actually draw upon it," countered Hudgens. Hud-gens. In any case, the most the commissioners would commit com-mit themselves to was a denial of the beer license at this time but a promise to "seriously consider" the proposal when the store is ready for operation. Wallin and Young did go on record, however, as indicating they . had no serious objections to the licensing but were rejecting the request as "premature." "We think you're putting the cart before the horse," Summit Countv Commissioners Commission-ers told 7-Eleven Store spokesperson Russ Hudgens in their Tuesday meeting as the store requested an advance okay on their request for a beer license. The store is planned for the Parkwest area near the Red Pine condominiums. 7-Eleven plans to lease the store and, according to Hudgens, 25 percent of the business depends upon a beer license so it is their practice to secure such approval in advance. "We just can't build the store and then find out later we can't have the beer license, " said Hudgens, "we can't afford it." Commissioners Gerald Young and Bill Wallin indicated they were not opposed to issuing the beer license once the store was actually built but they felt uncomfortable issuing it in advance. "Some people use the license to speculate with to increase the value of their property," noted Wallin. Commissioner Karl Ovard was the only commissioner to register serious reservations over ever issuing the license. I "I'm worried about traffic in the area and I have serious doubts because of the problems we experienced last summer during the Parkwest concerts," explained explain-ed Ovard. And he wasn't the only one present who objected. Steven Ste-ven Osguthorpe said he lives near the proposed location of the store and was absolutely opposed to the issuance of the beer license. "I'm opposed because of the concerts. I think a beer license would only aggravate the situation. I'm tired of seeing beer cans and beer bottles on the side of the road," he said. Osguthorpe was joined by Reid Sieverts of Snyderville who complained. "It's ironic e3 but people just -dump, their |